Repost from 2/18/2016

If you know what “a TV dinner for Valentine’s Day,” is, then you are my age or older!

I was in a bad mood just thinking about it…Valentine’s Day.  It has probably been forty years since I had no Valentine in my life.  I was ready for a meltdown.  Ready to cry myself to sleep on the night before and after.  Ready to break out the Gin.  But much to my surprise, nothing happened.  I survived Valentine’s Day alone.

Now, I have plenty of sadness about my thirty-year marriage coming to an end.  And as I watched loving couples walk hand-in-hand into the restaurants nearby I was envious.  But my reality is and was very different.  My marriage was very much about how things looked from the outside.  It was all a big pile of going-through-the-motions.

Who knew how great Valentine’s Day could be.  It was below zero outside, so I settled in for the weekend.  Saturday night I watched The Devil Wears Prada, only one of the finest motion pictures ever made. I watched SNL with Melissa McCarthy.  Sunday, I decided to start watching Empire by recommendation of my son, Ryan.  I plopped myself down in front of the TV, grabbed my computer for some tax work and got down to business.  I got to episode 5!  The taxes still need work.  Did some homework for my accounting class and cleaned out my emails.  I then moved on to RHOA, Downton Abbey, and KUWTK.  To lighten things up I binge watched The Mindy Project and Veep. So productive and so pop culture all at the same time.  My eyes are a little dry but I powered through!

I had no idea Valentine’s Day could be so fun and I can’t wait until next year when I plan on adding in some hot chocolate!